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Mengheng Lee

Mengheng Lee

Field: Pre-Modern Korean History, Early  Modern Sino-Korean Relation
Advisor: Jungwon Kim & Robert Hymes
Email: ml4052@columbia.edu

Mengheng is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Korean history. His research interests include social, legal, and political history of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) and contemporary Korean historiography. He also specializes in early modern Sino-Korean relations (Ming-Qing-Chosŏn relations). In his M.A. thesis, Mengheng discussed border-crossing issues between Chosŏn and Manchu in the early 17th century, dealing with the repatriation of ukanju and Manchu-Chosŏn relations. Now he is working on examining the formation of the borderland between Qing and Chosŏn, and the social status system of Chosŏn. Before joining Columbia, he received both his B.A. (2011) and M.A. (2015) in Department of History at National Taiwan University and spent one year at Korea University, Korea (2013-2014) for his personal research.

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Ekaterina Komova

Ekaterina Komova

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: ek2853@columbia.edu

Ekaterina is a PhD student in premodern Japanese literature. Prior to coming to Columbia, she received her BA in Asian Language and Culture (Hons., 2012) followed by her MA in Asian Studies (2014) from the University of British Columbia. Her primary research areas include the history and development of linguistic thought as well as the interrelation between linguistic processes such as grammatical and semantic broadening and their effect on the evolution and aesthetization of certain poetic and literary concepts. She is also interested in the tradition of poetic commentaries and reception, in addition to the stylistics and reading of kuzushiji (cursive) texts. Outside of her field of specialty, Ekaterina is actively involved in the research of phonetics of Czech and Russian.

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Stella Kim

Stella Kim

Field: Korean History
Advisor: Jungwon Kim
Email: ssk2217@columbia.edu

Stella is a PhD student in early modern Korean history. She focuses primarily on the late Chosŏn period, and her interests lie in mothering and motherhood, family and kinship, conceptions of death and the afterlife, as well as broader theoretical questions of feminist historiography. Stella holds a BA in Political Science from Brown University and a dual MA/MSc in International and World History from Columbia and the London School of Economics.

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